Chapter 482: The Fight Back
Of course, setting aside the risks, although the forex market can make money faster than the stock market, it's still just money. To translate influence and control into reality and convert the virtual into the tangible, you need to turn money into various companies.
At this point, it's essential to use the stock market!
Generally, large companies are already listed, and those that are not are mostly small companies. Xia Yu was interested in large companies, except for promising small companies like Sunrise.
So, acquiring shares of companies of interest through the stock market is necessary to complete the process of converting money into companies.
There are exceptions around the world, such as Germany, which, by 2018, had fewer than 800 listed companies, less than a tenth of those in the U.S. and less than a quarter of those in the Island Country. It was hard to imagine it being one of the two poles in the European Union.
Putting aside idle talk, after spending a day at the Galaxy Fund's station, Xia Yu met with Wang Qi and others.
From then on, Xia Yu almost spent every day at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, voraciously absorbing information about the Tokyo financial market of the era, allowing related memories in his mind to continuously revive and deepen.
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At Shogakukan's headquarters, Kohei Sanga summoned the head of the information room to his office to discuss the market research on the new manga in *Weekly Shonen SUNDAY*.
After studying the four manga from *Zhiyin Comic*, Shogakukan had launched a new manga with a style similar to *Dragon Ball*. Of course, to maintain face, the inspiration was not too blatant.
The manga was named *Shenling*. Its main storyline followed a boy's continuous struggle on the martial arts path. The manga's greatest feature was that in the world, there was a deity of wishes who had scattered nine differently colored divine gems. As long as the nine colored divine gems were assembled, the deity of wishes could be summoned to fulfill any wish.
"President, in all 500 random surveys, 68% of readers expressed anticipation for *Shenling*, 20% expressed a wait-and-see attitude, and 12% were indifferent."
The head of the information room bowed and handed over the statistical data.
Kohei Sanga's frown relaxed as he looked at the data. His mood, which had been sour due to Ma Tengdong's thwarting of his strategy, brightened up.
Even though it was only the first issue with just one chapter released, and the plot had yet to unfold, receiving such high praise with only 12% indifferent ratings showed that *Shenling* had significant potential.
However, it was unclear how Shueisha and Hakusensha were doing. If their situations were also good, leveraging the influence of the three major manga magazines could still reduce *Zhiyin Comic*'s potential and threat.
"Alright, you can leave now!"
After dismissing his subordinate, Kohei Sanga contacted Ichiro Sanga and Seitaro Sanga. The results were positive.
This made Kohei Sanga happy and further increased his focus on *Zhiyin Comic*, affirming the correctness of suppressing *Zhiyin Comic*.
After all, just by drawing inspiration from the four manga of *Zhiyin Comic*, the newly created manga had received such high praise. Considering the potential of *Dragon Ball* and *One Piece*, the threat to their Ichihashi Group was immense!
But the Sanga family was so insidious, and Ma Tengdong was no pushover. Kohei Sanga was rejoicing too early!
Just after signing the broadcasting rights contract with Japanese TV, Ma Tengdong put his all into the Japanese adaptation of *Dragon Ball*, working day and night. He managed to complete it in four days and handed all the produced animation to Japanese TV.
Upon receiving *Dragon Ball* animation, Japanese TV quickly began a three-day promotional campaign after reviewing and confirming its accuracy.
Additionally, Ma Tengdong arranged to boost the first broadcast rate of *Dragon Ball* on Japanese TV and to encourage the network to put more effort into promoting it. He announced this news on the cover of the Japanese edition of *Zhiyin Comic*, urging all readers to support it.
When Japanese TV's anime channel began promoting *Dragon Ball*, the news reached Kohei Sanga's ears immediately. His face grew serious during a meeting, and the topic was added to the meeting agenda.
Unfortunately, despite Ichihashi Group's great strength, it only had substantial influence in publishing and manga industries. Affecting Japanese TV was beyond their reach, and they could only watch as Japanese TV promoted and broadcasted *Dragon Ball*.
With another issue of *Zhiyin Comic* released, fans eagerly anticipated the anime's broadcast.
Coupled with Japanese TV's promotional effects, *Dragon Ball*'s first broadcast was a huge success. It secured the fourth position in the anime ranking on the same day. This result thrilled the relevant high-level executives at Japanese TV, who immediately ordered an increase in promotional efforts.
With the broadcast of *Dragon Ball* and the influence of Japanese TV, *Dragon Ball*'s impact exploded after the premiere.
Many readers who had never seen *Zhiyin Comic* before were intrigued by the *Dragon Ball* anime and wanted to know more about the storyline. They flocked to bookstores and comic shops to purchase issues of *Zhiyin Comic* featuring *Dragon Ball*.
Sales of that issue of *Zhiyin Comic* soared past one million copies, reaching 1.19 million copies!
This surpassed *Shonen King*, which ranked eighth with a weekly circulation of 1 million copies, and *Weekly Manga TIMES*, which ranked seventh with a weekly circulation of 1.12 million copies. The new ranking jumped from ninth place to seventh place, just 10,000 copies behind *Weekly Shonen Champion*.
Almost everyone knew that *Zhiyin Comic* would definitely surpass *Weekly Shonen Champion* next week. It was a done deal.
If anyone thought this was the end, they were sorely mistaken.
Ma Tengdong, who had been seething with rage, wasn't about to let it end here. His counterattack was far from over.
The next issue of *Zhiyin Comic* was not a standalone release but came with four newly launched series of manga volumes! Both the Chinese and Japanese editions were released simultaneously!
Creating manga volumes was straightforward: compile the previously serialized plots in *Zhiyin Comic* into commercial volumes.
New readers were likely unfamiliar with the previous plots, but no worries—there were commercial volumes of *Dragon Ball*, *One Piece*, *Pokémon*, and *Douluo Dalu* containing all previously serialized storylines.
Read from beginning to end, and it would be an exhilarating experience!
Indeed, the release of these manga volumes was like dropping a bomb into deep water. Fans became agitated, while competitors like Shueisha and Kodansha were visibly shaken.